I’ve been kind of a blogging flake lately. My deepest apologies for that. I’m sure it’s been painful to have to live without a daily update of my enthralling life… or not… whatev. Last week was every bit as crazy as I thought it would be. There was something going on at church every single night last week, and it was more than exhausting. We had our first Sunday in our brand new worship facility, and it was really fantastic. I’m so excited about having one service instead of two. Lance did a really wonderful job leading singing amidst some adverse circumstances. The sound system was a bit of a struggle… which is a polite understatement… so sometimes Lance said things into the mic and no sound came out. Lance, as always, was calm and relaxed. We had seven – seven!!! – baptisms on Sunday. Absolutely amazing. Many of them were kiddos from the Faith Builders class that Lance and Allan and Kipi just got done teaching. I feel so proud of Lance when I see the wonderful ways that his job blesses others’ lives. It is hard for me, though. I thought he did such a wonderful job of leading singing and picking songs and the whole nine yards on Sunday…. and then Lance gets all these comments/criticisms/you could do this better/I don’t like this/other things… and I just want to tell them that I think he is fabulous and that I think their comments are entirely unwarranted. I typically want to be less nice than that statement implies… which is why I hold my tongue. It is difficult to hear people say negative comments about the efforts of someone you love so much without going into attack mode. I can be rather vicious when in attack mode, so I try to avoid those situations whenever possible. It’s weird - I’m not so great at defending myself… but I will fight tooth and nail for those that I love. Speaking of not defending myself well… things are not going well at work. Every day makes me tired. I am applying elsewhere and praying like crazy. If you read this, I would appreciate your prayers as well. I know the Lord has a plan and that He always, always provides. I’m struggling because my timing is very different than His in this case. Well, hopefully I will do better about blogging now that things are slowing down a bit again. Oh, and I am very excited that America rocks at gymnastics even if Olympic judges are terribly inconsistent. I think Nastia and Shawn are just fabulous… and in all honesty, Shawn was my favie, so I’m pretty pumped that she got her gold. Okay, well, I’m still recovering from last week, so I think I’m about to go to bed. Ha – I just noticed that this is all one giant paragraph. Apologies for that…. 
Hooray! Week half over! August 20, 2008
It’s possible that we’ve been busy… August 12, 2008
As I write this, I am home alone (Lance is at church), sitting on the floor surrounded by laundry baskets, watering the lawn, waiting for the laundry to finish, eating fruit salad, and watching the Olympics (women’s gymnastics – my favie!). I have mentioned before that I have a tendency to be overly productive when I’m home alone…. well…. it’s still true. This is a very churchful week. Allow me to give you the week at a glance:
Sunday: church, small group at our house
Monday: Lance has Faithbuilders and training at the church
Tuesday: Lance has Faithbuilders and training at the church… and went downtown to feed homeless people somewhere in there
Wednesday: church
Thursday: 6:45am – cross ceremony (and Bible-reading kickoff) at the church, SYS that night
Friday: end of summer bash… and then we are taking our turn reading at 2:30 am. Awful waffle.
Saturday: Kids for Christ rally (then meeting my parents for dinner… so that’s not actually church-related, but still a busy day)
Sunday: ending of Bible reading, church, fellowship lunch, singing thing, reception/tours/whatever
Heavens! My fingers are tired just from typing that! Anyway, I feel like I will somehow help myself to have a less stressful week if I clean house tonight. I don’t know if that’s actually true, but I’m gonna give it a go anyway.
Okay, I don’t know if you’ve ever heard of lolcats… and I credit my friend Chris Schaeffer for introducing me to the sheer wonderment of them… Their site just makes me laugh so much. Well, it didn’t at first. It’s the kind of humor that has to grow on you. The day that my mom was put in the hospital (after they gave her so much medication that she had NO idea what was going on), Terra and I were sitting around in her hospital room playing on my dad’s laptop, and I took her to this site. We were giggling like little bitty kids that find something funny during chruch… and it’s somehow made funnier by the fact that you shouldn’t be laughing. Okay, here are some of my favie (recent) examples (and Terra, I tried to pick some that I thought you would appreciate):
(That one was for you, Trevor.)
Well, I need to move the sprinkler, switch clothes to the dryer, etc. I am LOVING these women’s gymnastics. Go America!
Only Tuesday? Really??? August 5, 2008
Welp. It’s Tuesday. And SURELY tomorrow is Friday.
Well… since the last time I posted, I worked a bunch, rode a train, saw a bunch of my best friends, spent some great time with my husband, watched the grand-slam ending of a Rangers game, went grocery shopping…
I’ll just talk about the interesting part. On Friday, my friend took me to the train station in Fort Worth, and I rode the Amtrak to OKC for a girls weekend! The train was pretty fun… or at least, it would have been pretty fun if we hadn’t gotten stuck behind a pokey-joe freight train! The 4 hour, 14 minute train ride ended up taking about 5.5 hours. Bleh. I spent Friday night through Sunday morning spending time with some of my besties, and it was just fabulous. There is something to be said for having friends that have known you through really great and really awful times. You just feel… known. It was a blessing to see them… especially since work has been so stinky lately. It felt wonderful to be with people that I know love me and that I feel so comfortable with.
We stayed at Kenz’s house (which is super cute, of course), went out to eat, got pedicures, shopped at her store, shopped at the mall (on Oklahoma’s tax-free weekend), met Stefie’s boyfriend (he loves her!), went to a Japanese steakhouse (which did mean things to my stomach), helped Stefie up after she fell down and went boom (twice), went to a tea room, took pictures, laughed a lot, slept all in the same room, scratched backs, watched movies (including Titanic! ha!), swapped stories, caught up… it was wonderful. I have pictures, but I am too lazy to get up and find the cord to upload them right now. I will do that shortly.
In case you haven’t picked up on the general theme of my adoration for my husband, allow me to reiterate that he is just wonderful. I love having girls weekends… but I also enjoy coming home to him. I love that all my friends love him. I love that I have nothing but great stories to share about him. I love that he is so intently staring at the Rangers game as I type this that he hasn’t noticed that I keep looking at him. Ha.
I have been Yawner McYawnny today, so I’m going to head to bed… but I will update again soon.
Oh, PS, if you are reading this, please say a prayer for me and my search to find fulfillment in my career. I don’t think I’m going to find it where I am right now… but i desire that the Lord lead. Please offer up a prayer that He will rescue me soon… and that He will bring glory to His name in my life.
